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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1974-11-21

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1974-11-21, page 01

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HRONICLE
UIBRAHY, OHIO HISTORICAL. SOCIETY 1Q82 VELM« AVE,'
COLB'. 0.
43all
EXGH
Zj|-\\>y Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over SO Year* V^7A\A
VOL. 52 NO. 46
NOVEMBER 21,1P74 - KISLEV 7 ,
Jewish Leaders Say Brown Must Go
Families await housing assignments and absorbtion and rehabilitation. Cash needed to provide the essentials of life.
American Jewry Challenged To Provide Cash Now!
The following letter released by UJA General Chairman Paul Zuckerman was sent by Pinhas Sapir, Chairman of the Jewish Agency, to the leadership of the United Jewish Appeal and the Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds'of the United States.
"In this year we are reminded again that to survive Israel must be strong, defense forces must have the capability to discourage any attempt to crush us, that our borders must be made secure against infllitration, that our entire nation must be con¬ stantly on guard against the desperate actions of terrorists.
"For this strength, the people of Israel must pay — in taxes and defense loans and in other ways — a third of everything we produce, while still paying the costs of the Yom Kippur War, which consumed an entire year pf Israel's GNP.
"But how tragic it would be if the cost of security made us diminish, in the slightest degree, Israel's very reason for being — providing a home for needy and oppressed Jews. Our
task is to continue and strengthen this historic mission. At this very moment, we are waiting to hear the joyous news that the Jews of me Soviet Union will be allowed to come to Israel in numbers greater than ever before.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 19)
ByBenGallob
NEW YORK, (JTA) - Jewish leaders flooded the White House with telegrams Nov. 13 demanding that President Ford dismiss Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for his anti-Semitic and anti- Israel statements. They also demanded an immediate apology, but indications were that the apology was not acceptable. Raymond Epstein, president of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, sent a telegram to Ford during "an immediate retraction and apology" from Brown. The telegram was sent : from Chicago where 2500 Jewish com¬ munal leaders are attending the CJF's 43rd General Assembly. Epstein said in the telegram that "we are stunned by today's revelation of statements made by Gen. George S. Brown regarding Jews. We know that these comments do not reflect our American
government's position nor your own well established sympathetic understanding of the Jewish community. We most strongly urge an immediate retraction and apology by the General. This corrective is needed to prevent his remarks from being an incentive to overt anti-Semitism. We believe that your own statement will do the most to counter and remedy this grievous slur and request your action." In
a telegram to Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, Brown's superior, Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said Brown's remarks were blatanly anti- Semitic. He added: "His statement should be im¬ mediately repudiated by you for the Department of Defense and Brown issue an apology. It is imperative
that a full investigation be a launched into the cir¬ cumstances which precipitated this outrageous
act", ■■■•':,■., to '
Rabbi Alexander Schin- dler, -president/of the (Reform) Union of Aim eric a ri He brew Congregations, said that Brown must be dismissed for "his outrageous and blatant anti-Semitic stereotyping remarks against Jews and
(CONTINUED ON FAGE 7)
Rabbi Blasts Jewish Women's Movement
by Bill Cohen Chronicle Special Reporter
Elie Wiesel Will Speak At Cols. Torak Academy
The Columbus Torah Academy annual dinner will be held on Sunday, Nov. 24,6:30p.m. at the Columbus Sheraton Hotel.
Presenting the evening's main address will be the nationally prominent author Elie Wiesel, Mr. Wiesel, whose major theme of life is the growth of humanization in man, .was born in Signet, Transylvania in 1928. He was imprisoned in several of the Nazi concentration camps. After, the holocaust he worked in Paris as a jour¬ nalist and writer.
Now an American citizen, he and his wife live in New York most of the year andin Israel and Paris the rest of the time. A distinguished professor of Judaic Studies
Elie Wiesel
at City College in New York, Mr. Wiesel also holds honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University, Boston
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
| The Jewish women's movement'is "aimed at the destruction of traditional Judaism and the beautiful heritage of the Jewish faith," according to Rabbi David Stavsky of Beth Jacob.
In response to the recent
conference of Jewish women
held at the Melton Building
and growing demands by
Jevvlgii, women for. more
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pflsJ^L ^institutions', Stavsky told
^ The Chronicle he thinks the
leaders of the growing
movement have "personal
problems."
"In all probability, these people are unhappy with themselves and. therefore they are also unhappy with Jewish society around them," Stavsky said. "I know it's very dangerous to make such a sweeping general statement, but I think these women are unstable, bitter, and angry," he added.
"I suspect that what we are witnessing today is hot a real act of piety but as much an act of being angry with society and themselves," said Stavsky.
Stavsky said he compares the Jewish women's movement With "the un¬
dermining of the covenental community faith by the rise of Reform Judaism in Germany at the end of the Eighteenth Century."
Stavsky said the Jewish women's movement goes on assumptions that men and women are the same. "A female has attributes that a
male doesn't have. If God wanted us to be unisex, He would have created us as one being," said Stavsky;
Stavsky also charged that many of the leaders of the new women's movement are "unqualified" to interpret Hallacha, the Jewish Law.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
Sol Morton Isaac
Maynard Kaplan
Dedication Committee Appointed
Edward Schlezinger, President of the Heritage House Board of Directors announces the appointment, of Sol Morton Isaac as Chairman of the Planning Committee for the forth¬ coming Dedication of the Eleanor and Jack Resler Wing of Heritage House. J. Maynard Kaplan has ac¬ cepted the position as Co-
Chairman.
Additional members of the Board of Directors of Heritage House who also serve on the Committee are: Justice Leonard Stern, Mrs. Joseph Schecter, Don Erkis, Mrs. Harry Polster, David Levison, Robert Kaynes, Allen Gundersheimer, Jr., and Mrs. Bernard Mentser.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 19)
Behind The Headlines.
Anti-Sernfflc Statements\0$ Joint Chiefs Chmn.
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) - President Ford was por¬ trayed Nov. 13 as feeling
"very strongly" about the anti-Semitic remarks made ty Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
; of Staffs and to consider them to have 'been "ill- advised and poorly hand-
' led." The Presidential reaction was conveyed by White House Press Secretary Ronald Nessen to a clearly angered and
agitated White House Press (Corps as expressions of indignation and outrage continued to pour into Washington from American Jewish leaders and others. Brown meanwhile offered a 200-word apology in a letter addressed to the Jewish War Veterans of the United States. The furor developed after it was learned that the four star general, replying to questions after addressing a group at Duke University Law School in Durham. N-C. Oct. 10 on thepossibility of
American military in¬ tervention in the event of a second Arab oil embargo, had said that Jews exerted -too much influence in Congress because Jews "own, you know, the banks in this country, the newspapers." The General prefaced those remarks with a threat that, "If there is another oil embargo and people in this country are not only inconvenienced and uncomfortable but suffer (they will) get tough minded enough to set down the
Jewish influence ih this country and break the lobby:" Brown's remarks, not widely reported until now, were disclosed by the Washington Post Nov. 13 in an article by its staff writer, Michael Getter, v Nessen acknowledged that "someone in the White House knew" about Brown's remarks "several days ago" before their publication but was unable, to say when the President learned of them. He could not explain the delay in conveying the
President's reaction when the White House had prior knowledge of the incident. Nessen stressed that Brown's remarks "in no way represent" the President's "views or any other senior officials of his Ad¬ ministration — military or civilian." He disclosed that the President "com¬ municated" his reaction by an aide over the telephone to Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, Brown's superior. But the President did not speak personally to
either Schlesinger or Brown. Hyman Bookbinder, Washington representative!
' of the American Jewish, Committee, said that Schlesinger had telephoned him and expressed "great personal anguish" over Brown's remarks. He said the Defense Secretary had indicated "that public
.repudiation'would be forth¬ coming." The White House correspondents, whose president is James Deaking of the St, Louis Post
(CONTINUED ON PACE 19} ,

mmmm
HRONICLE
UIBRAHY, OHIO HISTORICAL. SOCIETY 1Q82 VELM« AVE,'
COLB'. 0.
43all
EXGH
Zj|-\\>y Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over SO Year* V^7A\A
VOL. 52 NO. 46
NOVEMBER 21,1P74 - KISLEV 7 ,
Jewish Leaders Say Brown Must Go
Families await housing assignments and absorbtion and rehabilitation. Cash needed to provide the essentials of life.
American Jewry Challenged To Provide Cash Now!
The following letter released by UJA General Chairman Paul Zuckerman was sent by Pinhas Sapir, Chairman of the Jewish Agency, to the leadership of the United Jewish Appeal and the Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds'of the United States.
"In this year we are reminded again that to survive Israel must be strong, defense forces must have the capability to discourage any attempt to crush us, that our borders must be made secure against infllitration, that our entire nation must be con¬ stantly on guard against the desperate actions of terrorists.
"For this strength, the people of Israel must pay — in taxes and defense loans and in other ways — a third of everything we produce, while still paying the costs of the Yom Kippur War, which consumed an entire year pf Israel's GNP.
"But how tragic it would be if the cost of security made us diminish, in the slightest degree, Israel's very reason for being — providing a home for needy and oppressed Jews. Our
task is to continue and strengthen this historic mission. At this very moment, we are waiting to hear the joyous news that the Jews of me Soviet Union will be allowed to come to Israel in numbers greater than ever before.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 19)
ByBenGallob
NEW YORK, (JTA) - Jewish leaders flooded the White House with telegrams Nov. 13 demanding that President Ford dismiss Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for his anti-Semitic and anti- Israel statements. They also demanded an immediate apology, but indications were that the apology was not acceptable. Raymond Epstein, president of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, sent a telegram to Ford during "an immediate retraction and apology" from Brown. The telegram was sent : from Chicago where 2500 Jewish com¬ munal leaders are attending the CJF's 43rd General Assembly. Epstein said in the telegram that "we are stunned by today's revelation of statements made by Gen. George S. Brown regarding Jews. We know that these comments do not reflect our American
government's position nor your own well established sympathetic understanding of the Jewish community. We most strongly urge an immediate retraction and apology by the General. This corrective is needed to prevent his remarks from being an incentive to overt anti-Semitism. We believe that your own statement will do the most to counter and remedy this grievous slur and request your action." In
a telegram to Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, Brown's superior, Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said Brown's remarks were blatanly anti- Semitic. He added: "His statement should be im¬ mediately repudiated by you for the Department of Defense and Brown issue an apology. It is imperative
that a full investigation be a launched into the cir¬ cumstances which precipitated this outrageous
act", ■■■•':,■., to '
Rabbi Alexander Schin- dler, -president/of the (Reform) Union of Aim eric a ri He brew Congregations, said that Brown must be dismissed for "his outrageous and blatant anti-Semitic stereotyping remarks against Jews and
(CONTINUED ON FAGE 7)
Rabbi Blasts Jewish Women's Movement
by Bill Cohen Chronicle Special Reporter
Elie Wiesel Will Speak At Cols. Torak Academy
The Columbus Torah Academy annual dinner will be held on Sunday, Nov. 24,6:30p.m. at the Columbus Sheraton Hotel.
Presenting the evening's main address will be the nationally prominent author Elie Wiesel, Mr. Wiesel, whose major theme of life is the growth of humanization in man, .was born in Signet, Transylvania in 1928. He was imprisoned in several of the Nazi concentration camps. After, the holocaust he worked in Paris as a jour¬ nalist and writer.
Now an American citizen, he and his wife live in New York most of the year andin Israel and Paris the rest of the time. A distinguished professor of Judaic Studies
Elie Wiesel
at City College in New York, Mr. Wiesel also holds honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University, Boston
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
| The Jewish women's movement'is "aimed at the destruction of traditional Judaism and the beautiful heritage of the Jewish faith," according to Rabbi David Stavsky of Beth Jacob.
In response to the recent
conference of Jewish women
held at the Melton Building
and growing demands by
Jevvlgii, women for. more
**«. x„ •- ^U»I&5Wi3>fe«ash rjtuaLand
pflsJ^L ^institutions', Stavsky told
^ The Chronicle he thinks the
leaders of the growing
movement have "personal
problems."
"In all probability, these people are unhappy with themselves and. therefore they are also unhappy with Jewish society around them," Stavsky said. "I know it's very dangerous to make such a sweeping general statement, but I think these women are unstable, bitter, and angry," he added.
"I suspect that what we are witnessing today is hot a real act of piety but as much an act of being angry with society and themselves," said Stavsky.
Stavsky said he compares the Jewish women's movement With "the un¬
dermining of the covenental community faith by the rise of Reform Judaism in Germany at the end of the Eighteenth Century."
Stavsky said the Jewish women's movement goes on assumptions that men and women are the same. "A female has attributes that a
male doesn't have. If God wanted us to be unisex, He would have created us as one being," said Stavsky;
Stavsky also charged that many of the leaders of the new women's movement are "unqualified" to interpret Hallacha, the Jewish Law.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
Sol Morton Isaac
Maynard Kaplan
Dedication Committee Appointed
Edward Schlezinger, President of the Heritage House Board of Directors announces the appointment, of Sol Morton Isaac as Chairman of the Planning Committee for the forth¬ coming Dedication of the Eleanor and Jack Resler Wing of Heritage House. J. Maynard Kaplan has ac¬ cepted the position as Co-
Chairman.
Additional members of the Board of Directors of Heritage House who also serve on the Committee are: Justice Leonard Stern, Mrs. Joseph Schecter, Don Erkis, Mrs. Harry Polster, David Levison, Robert Kaynes, Allen Gundersheimer, Jr., and Mrs. Bernard Mentser.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 19)
Behind The Headlines.
Anti-Sernfflc Statements\0$ Joint Chiefs Chmn.
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) - President Ford was por¬ trayed Nov. 13 as feeling
"very strongly" about the anti-Semitic remarks made ty Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
; of Staffs and to consider them to have 'been "ill- advised and poorly hand-
' led." The Presidential reaction was conveyed by White House Press Secretary Ronald Nessen to a clearly angered and
agitated White House Press (Corps as expressions of indignation and outrage continued to pour into Washington from American Jewish leaders and others. Brown meanwhile offered a 200-word apology in a letter addressed to the Jewish War Veterans of the United States. The furor developed after it was learned that the four star general, replying to questions after addressing a group at Duke University Law School in Durham. N-C. Oct. 10 on thepossibility of
American military in¬ tervention in the event of a second Arab oil embargo, had said that Jews exerted -too much influence in Congress because Jews "own, you know, the banks in this country, the newspapers." The General prefaced those remarks with a threat that, "If there is another oil embargo and people in this country are not only inconvenienced and uncomfortable but suffer (they will) get tough minded enough to set down the
Jewish influence ih this country and break the lobby:" Brown's remarks, not widely reported until now, were disclosed by the Washington Post Nov. 13 in an article by its staff writer, Michael Getter, v Nessen acknowledged that "someone in the White House knew" about Brown's remarks "several days ago" before their publication but was unable, to say when the President learned of them. He could not explain the delay in conveying the
President's reaction when the White House had prior knowledge of the incident. Nessen stressed that Brown's remarks "in no way represent" the President's "views or any other senior officials of his Ad¬ ministration — military or civilian." He disclosed that the President "com¬ municated" his reaction by an aide over the telephone to Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, Brown's superior. But the President did not speak personally to
either Schlesinger or Brown. Hyman Bookbinder, Washington representative!
' of the American Jewish, Committee, said that Schlesinger had telephoned him and expressed "great personal anguish" over Brown's remarks. He said the Defense Secretary had indicated "that public
.repudiation'would be forth¬ coming." The White House correspondents, whose president is James Deaking of the St, Louis Post
(CONTINUED ON PACE 19} ,